# Building ruby on Solaris (without root permissions) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 7, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-ruby-on-solaris-without-root-permissions/88011 "2007-03-07T15:32:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonathan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-ruby-on-solaris-without-root-permissions/88011/1 "2007-03-07T15:32:30Z")
I’m trying to install ruby under my home directory on a Solaris 5.8 sparc machine. I ran ./configure with the --prefix switch to point to a directory ~/ruby and then ran /usr/local/bin/make to override the sun one on my path. That failed with the error below; Can anyone help me? EXTOBJS=ext/extinit.o ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.a ext/curses/curses.a ext/dbm/dbm.a ext/digest/digest.a ext/digest/md5/md5.a ext/digest/rmd160/rmd160.a ext/digest/sha1/sha1.a ext/digest/sha2/sha2.a ext/dl/dl.a ext/enumerator/enumerator.a ext/etc/etc.a ext/fcntl/fcntl.a ext/iconv/iconv.a ext/io/wait/wait.a ext/nkf/nkf.a ext/pty/pty.a ext/racc/cparse/cparse.a ext/sdbm/sdbm.a ext/socket/socket.a ext/stringio/stringio.a ext/strscan/strscan.a ext/syck/syck.a ext/syslog/syslog.a ext/zlib/zlib.a EXTLIBS=-lcurses -ltermcap -ldl -liconv -lsocket -lnsl -lz making ruby make[1]: Entering directory `/home/hopkinj/tmp/tmp/ruby-1.8.5-p12' gcc -g -O2 -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I. -oext/extinit.o -c ext/extinit.c /usr/ccs/bin/as: error: no input filename given usage: /usr/ccs/bin/as [-V] [-Q{y,n}] [-f[O][if]#] [-q] [-s] [-S] [-K {pic,PIC}] [-o objfile] [-L] [-T] [-P [[-Ipath] [-Dname] [-Dname=def] [-Uname]]...] [-m [-Ym,path]] [-n] [-ul] [-xF] [-xarch=v7] [-xarch=v8] [-xarch=v8a] [-xarch=v8plus] [-xarch=v8plusa] [-xarch=v8plusb] [-xarch=v9] [-xarch=v9a] [-xarch=v9b] [-xcode={pic13,pic32}] file.s... make[1]: *** [ext/extinit.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory`/home/hopkinj/tmp/tmp/ruby-1.8.5-p12’ make: \*\*\* [all] Error 2 * * * ---
**Author:** ![jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonathan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-ruby-on-solaris-without-root-permissions/88011/2 "2007-03-07T16:35:54Z")
On Mar 7, 7:32 am, Jonathan [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/hopkinj/tmp/tmp/ruby-1.8.5-p12’ > make: \*\*\* [all] Error 2 > This looks like the sort of error that I’ve run into in the past when > I was mixing Sun’s utilities with gcc. In this case you’re using /usr/ > ccs/bin/as. My recommendation is to either build using Sun’s compiler (which is free, btw) and ditch gcc on Solaris altogether. If that’s not an option, then you need to make sure the GNU utilities are first in your PATH, including make (perhaps use gmake), as (assuming there’s a GNU version of as), etc. Regards, Dan ---
**Author:** ![jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonathan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 11:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-ruby-on-solaris-without-root-permissions/88011/3 "2007-03-08T11:08:44Z")
Unfortunately I don’t have another assembler I can use. Pity ☹ ---
**Author:** ![jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonathan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-ruby-on-solaris-without-root-permissions/88011/4 "2007-03-08T23:02:20Z")
Hello Daniel, DB\> This looks like the sort of error that I’ve run into in the past when DB\> I was mixing Sun’s utilities with gcc. In this case you’re using /usr/ DB\> ccs/bin/as. DB\> My recommendation is to either build using Sun’s compiler (which is DB\> free, btw) and ditch gcc on Solaris altogether. If that’s not an DB\> option, then you need to make sure the GNU utilities are first in your DB\> PATH, including make (perhaps use gmake), as (assuming there’s a GNU DB\> version of as), etc. By the way: Anybody here in the beta testing for Sun Studio 12? [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming.threads/browse\_thread/thread/d822575cf6f61b32/90ff54423a09d5d5#90ff54423a09d5d5](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming.threads/browse_thread/thread/d822575cf6f61b32/90ff54423a09d5d5#90ff54423a09d5d5) I had some some problems with last version of sun studio. So it would be nice if somebody can tell if it’s worth to join and try out. ---
**Author:** ![jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonathan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 5:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-ruby-on-solaris-without-root-permissions/88011/5 "2007-03-09T05:41:01Z")
On Mar 8, 2:08 am, Jonathan H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Unfortunately I don’t have another assembler I can use. Pity ☹ There’s still hope though. You can install a prefixed gcc tool chain and use that to compile Ruby. I recently had to use a similar construct to get Ruby/GSL working. Installing gcc by yourself is a pain though, so I would recommend using “prefixed Portage”, which installs a version of Portage to deal with all the details. This is what I ended up doing, though I run OS X. See [http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-solaris.xml](http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-solaris.xml) 'cid 'ooh